Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I liked the live action movie by David Ayers with Will Smith and Margo Robbie but this animated one, released 2 years before the live action one is much better. What makes this one better then the Ayer's one is the great writing. They simply did a better job at putting together a strong story then Ayers did. With the Ayers movie it felt like they had good characters but never were able to make the story come together. This movie succeeds at that tremendously. This is a movie that is able to somehow make the riddler and the joker(my two favorite batman villains) both be the main villain and make it work perfectly. It was a cool idea making the riddler be the reason why Waller needs the squad. Also I love that the actor from criminal minds who plays Spencer Reid is voicing the riddler. Perfect casting. Unlike the live action one the squad is shown to be a top secrete off the books covert assignment, which is the way the squad is suppose to be. Not that we need them to protect us from a evil superman. The film wastes no time and gets right into it. They do a great job at setting up the riddler and Waller then we get a quick and nice introduction to the squad. Their mission is simple and it has a nice plot twist that makes sense and makes riddler more important to the plot. The film also does a good job at balancing it's characters, with the live action movie it kind of felt like the deadshot and Harley Quinn show while the other characters were sideline. This film showcases everyone nicely and does this without giving us a whole lot of(if any) backstory for the characters. The movie has a nice heist element as we seem them try to break into Arkham. Something that was lacking in the live action one. Also one of my problems with the Ayers movie was that the villains weren't villainous enough but here we see them turn against each other and are never really depicted as being heroes. I also like the overall more edge this movie has compare to the Ayers movie. Another problem I had with the Ayers movie was the lack of Joker. However in this movie we get to see much more joker and I like how he works in the movie. He's not the main focus but still important to the story. I like how this movie never really gives us an official main villain. It's basically just a movie with a bunch of bad guys and batman in the middle of everything but it's woven together so nicely it never feels convoluted. We also get cameos by other batman villains. Also I really like this interpretation of Harley Quinn, Hayden Welch voice is great I think they captured her personality perfectly. I also like Troy Baker as the Joker. I honestly thought it was Mark Hammil doing the voice. I also love the animation it almost felt like a live action movie. One of my favorites from D.C. animation!

It's really not that big of a surprise to find out that "Batman: Assault on Arkham" is a much better Suicide Squad movie than the one with Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang), Jerod Leto ("The Joker), Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) and Will Smith. I mean, duh?! We should've seen this coming, but I guess not.But yeah, everything that was literally wrong with the live-action "Suicide Squad" movie, this movie actually made up for as DC and Warner Bros.' way of saying, "We're sorry" to the fans.Bottom-line, if you want to see a really good Suicide Squad movie, don't watch the live-action version. Go watch this movie instead. It deserves a lot more attention.10 out of 10 stars.

I made the mistake of watching this movie with my son before reading any reviews - I will never make this mistake again. This "cartoon" should definitely have been R-rated. The violence that is shown or implied is truly gruesome, and the female characters are vulgarly sexualized. The entire story is nothing but a series of double-crosses and gruesome deaths, with blood squirting all over the place and characters' heads exploding. Batman himself is a minor character, which almost amounts to false advertising. Viewers expecting a Batman adventure will be sorely disappointed; this movie appeals to the basest instincts of young men brutalized by gory video games. Shame on the producers of this drivel!

Haven't seen SUICIDE SQUAD, and have no real intention of seeing it. Probably will, at some point, just by sheer odds. The premise is bad enough, and considering you have to be very careful when dealing with a bunch of rogues as the main characters, the writing has to be top notch in order to make the movie work. Considering that SUICIDE SQUAD is related to the same really horrifying universe that contains BATMAN V SUPERMAN, I have to say… I'm REALLY not looking forward to that one.All that being said… This movie is… Well… It's better than BATMAN V SUPERMAN, anyway.It's hard to sympathize with bad guys, unless the bad guys have a reason to be bad guys that goes beyond who they are. Mr. Freeze is a bad guy because of the tragedy that befell his wife, Nora. Edward Nigma (The Riddler) turned criminal when cheated out of his shot at glory by a corporate swindler (assuming of course that the episode of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES was true to his origin). On and on, the best villains are those that are, by far, ones you can either sympathize with… Or be terrified of.The Joker is always in the midst somewhere, and in the midst of this semi-mess of a film he is strangely a breath of fresh air. Most of the main cast is made up of heartless monsters that are not only portrayed as such from moment one on screen (such as King Shark's apartment filled with hanging corpses of his victims as he bathes in their blood) but whose behavior throughout the film gives us nothing to root for. Harley Quinn is at least amusing and strangely sexual (a very interesting decision by the folks making animated DC films these days) and Deadshot is clearly the best gray-area villain of the group. He's clever, deadly, careful, logical… When he and Batman tangle, there's the suggestion that, of all of the strange selections of this particular rogues gallery, he is the one that is the most dangerous to Batman. You have to admire an assassin with a heart. And you should fear that man, as well. So, in that regard, those two villains of the main cast are the ones to watch, and bring the most to the game.The rest are the types you'd see in horror movies, waiting to see when they would buy the farm and in what gruesome way they would buy it. You feel nothing when they get injured, nothing if they die, nothing for them at all, even when the plot is trying to make you feel something for them. They brutally, needlessly slaughter without care or concern, and this brings the worst part of the movie to attention.If you're going to create a "Suicide Squad", the mission you send them on should be almost hopeless. By creating a random team of expendables, you're main concern should only be the calculation of their abilities versus the odds at hand, and no real expectation of victory. Or at least I think that's how you should do it. Hiring a bunch of criminal maniacs to invade a civilian institution at the cost of the lives of the poor schmucks caught in the crossfire is sloppy, reckless, and plainly unnecessary, in regards to the operation in question and with the overall quality of the film itself. Deadshot should have made himself clear as the leader of the pack, and should have controlled his cronies in some way that would have made the death toll less random and pointless.What's worse is the twist of the film, and Batman's behavior, which does not seem to jive with who he is and what he's supposed to mean. On one hand, it feels like a mistake, and on the other, it feels like sloppy writing. With his behavior, the film feels like a commercial for the video game that succeeds it, which, according to the trailers, is the whole point of the film in the first place.Is it fun to see Batman be the bad-ass character he always is? Absolutely. The reaction of the criminals, as vile and monstrous as they are, is absolutely priceless once they realize he's in the game. And the way they handle him overall certainly delivers enough of a punch to satisfy, which is why my rating is a 7 instead of a 6 or 5, which is where it would be if Batman was completely off-target. So there's that, at least.Deadshot and Harley, as I've said, are the semi-protagonists to watch, and the Joker is thrown in for excellent measure to straighten out the plot's wrinkles. Once again, giving enough satisfaction to make you at least appreciate that there are more highs than lows.But not by much.